AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
AN IMPERFECT SYSTEM, Tho only thoroughly satisfactory way of taking agricultural statistics, tho lion. W. F. Massey stated in tho Houso of liepresentatives yesterday, in answer to Mr. Craigie, is by means of collectors calling at every holding, and the cost of thiswould be over £4UOO per anuum—an exponso that is probably not warranted every year. Tho presont method is, to make a full collection three times in each decado, and to obtain simpler returns from farmors by post during tho intervening years. |' Tho postal system was adopted by tho Government on tho repeated recommendations of tho farming community, and it depends almost entirely upon tho farmers themselves whether its results arc reasonably correct or not. The question of whether tho police could give substantial aid in collecting theso statistics, and thus materially reduco the cost, is being investigated, and may provide a way out of the presont difficulty.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1876, 9 October 1913, Page 10
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151AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1876, 9 October 1913, Page 10
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